Alexander Trocchi fu un romanziere scozzese la cui opera iniziale esplorò personaggi emarginati e le loro lotte con un crudo realismo. Il suo stile fu spesso descritto come provocatorio e schietto, approfondendo gli aspetti più oscuri dell'esistenza umana. Fu una figura significativa nella scena letteraria del dopoguerra, noto per la sua voce distintiva e le sue narrazioni avvincenti.
This is the true, disturbing case history of a female psychopath, a chillingly lyrical account which has an unequalled power to evoke the decadent melancholy of doomed, delinquent aristocracy in a dark age of superstition.
An einem heißen Sommertag findet der Fährmann Joe eine Wasserleiche und beginnt eine Affäre mit der Frau seines Chefs. Als die Identität der Toten bekannt wird, eskaliert die Situation. Alexander Trocchi, beeinflusst von Camus, schafft mit diesem Psychothriller einen Anspruch auf 'Weltliteratur'.
Sapphos of Lesbos lived for love, as these unashamed memoirs show. It has always been widely believed that Lesbos, basking in the blue Aegean Sea, was an island where lesbianism held full sway - but this is only partly true. Married to a wealthy merchant, the legendary voluptuary found his frequent absences provided just the freedom she desired to satisfy her amorous needs beyond the limited circle of her beautiful handmaids. For though sensuous Sappho certainly knew well how to please a woman, she also knew how to please her men. Her numerous lovers, Phaon and Alexander, Kressim and Alcaeus among many others, were beguiled by her beauty and seduced by her sensual charm.
Written in America while Trocchi was working on a scow on the Hudson River, Cain's Book is an extraordinary autobiographical account about a junky's life, and an honest, raunchy, eye-opening trip through hell. Probably the most famous novel about drug addiction and the hazards and excitements of an addict's life after Burrough's Naked Lunch, this modern classic - which was prosecuted in Britain for obscenity in 1965 - still shocks in its frankness and is relevant to this day.
